In a somewhat rare arrangement as far as design houses go, father-son duo Joe and Charlie Casely-Hayford have built a formidable menswear business based on Savile Row tailoring and modern English style.
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There was a sense of passage at the Simon Lee Gallery tucked in London's Mayfair neighborhood, the setting for Wales Bonner's Fall / Winter 2018 Menswear show.
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It's the midst of December where indeed it is blustery in one half of the world, balmy in the other half, and somewhere in-between everywhere else. Thankfully, style is not limited by temperature.
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It may be hard to understand if you've never visited the city, but Kenneth Ize's Spring 2018 collection presented during Heineken Lagos Fashion & Design Week felt like Lagos.
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Ask any fashion enthusiast their thoughts on MaXhosa by Laduma and immediate words come to mind: bold colors, traditional heritage, and luxurious knitwear. His Spring 2018 presentation at Heineken Lagos Fashion & Design Week was emphasis on the same.
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Childhood games were the subject of Maki Oh's Spring 2018 presentation shown during New York Fashion Week. Creative Director Amaka Osakwe loves her history and even more channeling the narratives of Nigerian lore of old. The collection this time took a more personal approach, salvaging memories of her youth in Lagos.
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To celebrate Nigeria's Independence Day, PROTOChic is highlighting a few of our favorite Nigerian brands, burgeoning and beloved.
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Who but Haitian designer Stella Jean can combine aquatic wildlife, Bolivian female wrestling garb, and a drumming circle in one collection? Jean is quite literally known for her melange of cultural references, but this Spring 2018 collection during Milan Fashion Week honored the inspiration.
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Nigerian-born, London-based designer Duro Olowu has been a fountain of inspiration for African designers everywhere since launching his eponymous label in 2004. This season is an ode to Lee Miller, artist, photographer, and muse to surrealist painters in the 1930s.
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The story begins in Montego Bay, Jamaica where a young Matthew Harris was born and raised the son of a seamstress. Years later, his luxury brand Mateo New York would become one of the finalists for America's largest prize for emerging design talent.
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Trust a LaQuan Smith production to be high in social media fodder. The 29-year old fashion designer from Queens, New York revealed his Spring 2018 collection on Sunday set to a school yard backdrop.
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Street style was vibrant yet again this past weekend during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Johannesburg (MBFWJ) held over three days at the luxurious Mall of Africa.
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Instagram-worthy from every angle, the piece worn by Eku Edewor at the Lagos Heineken LFDW Fashion Focus with its playful striping and joyous silhouette was infused with tremendous meaning designed by I.AM.ISIGO creative director Bubu Ogisi.
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Making it as a fashion designer is no easy feat wherever you are from; yet, the playing field is not equal for all. Nigerian-born creative director Abiola Adeniran-Olusola embodies this emerging cohort of super bright talents with the persistence to succeed and the confidence to make it happen on their own terms.
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Summer is still in full swing lest you forgot and our favorite style icons in the making were rocking the best of ensembles this past weekend.
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Soul fusion songstress Falana's aesthetic is a little bit hard to pin down - in all the best ways.
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Grace Wales Bonner is a woman of many reference points and she will readily admit it. Her latest runway show Blue Duets SS18 held at Swiss Church in London was firmly placed in the tenets that shaped her rise as a serial award-winning fashion designer
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It was the best of industry celebrations this past weekend to fete the launch of designer Lisa Folawiyo's newest line J Label at Temple Muse.Yet, sometimes at the most fashionable of fashion launches, the most interesting outfits are worn by the guests themselves.
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